The latest Boeing and aerospace news, including updates about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, 747-8 and 737, Airbus A380 and A350, the anticipated Boeing 797 and Boeing jobs and layoffs

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The first of more than 50 A380s that Emirates Airlines has ordered arrived at New York’s JFK Friday afternoon after a flight from Dubai, marking the first commercial flight of the Airbus jet into the United States. Previous flights to the U.S. were part of the test flight program and did not carry paying passengers.
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With the Pentagon perhaps just a week or so away from sending out a request for proposals on the Air Force tanker, the ongoing war of words between Boeing and Northrop backers has turned more ugly.
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Boeing and the NTSB have investigators on the way to Manila, where a Qantas 747-400 with 346 passengers made an emergency landing with a hole the size of a small car in its belly near the wing.
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Aviaition Partners Boeing has started its certification testing of blended winglets for the 767-300ER. An American Airlines 767 is being used for the testing. First flight was Sunday. I filed a story Wednesday on the test program, with a brief history of blended winglets.
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Boeing had a bigger-than-expected loss Wednesday — about a 19 percent drop in its quarterly profits. Part of that was because of a charge related to late delivery of its 737 early warning aircraft program. But it was also because of both 787 delays and a different mix of jets that it delivered.
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The crash Monday of a Boeing B-52 off the coast of Guam was the first for the giant Cold War bomber since one went down at Fairchild AFB near Spokane in 1994. Ironically, both planes were supposed to take part in air show events.
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Although the Defense Department announced Wednesday it will reopen the tanker competition, it reportedly will change the initial Air Force requirements and give extra credit to a bigger tanker. That could mean Boeing will have to offer the 777.
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The National Transportation Board said Thursday a threat had been made against an ABX Air plane only a week before one of the cargo carrier’s 767s caught fire while parked last month at San Francisco International Airport.
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